I have my newish Canon Pixma iX6520 that I got a fairly good deal on
when my HP B8550 decided to freeze up, (The canon was actually less
expensive than buying inks for my backup printer). Well it prints pretty
decent images, though I'd gotten the Prints on the HP to be very good
and they were actually a bit better than I've managed to do on the Canon
so far.
Rather than go into excruciating detail I'll just say that there are
things about the HP that I really liked but one of them wasn't the
Windows printer driver. HP decided that Windows users really didn't need
paper profiles, (Strangely Mac users got to have paper profiles). So a
fully color managed printing work flow wasn't possible. The method used
was to do all the adjustments necessary then set the image output to
sRGB, and let the printer manage the color. That actually worked very
well, matching what i saw on the screen 95% of the time.
The new Canon however does allow profiles so I can set up an end to end
color managed workflow! Yay! Except there's a fly in the ointment. I've
been using Ilford Galerie Professional Inkjet Smooth Gloss Paper, to
print 8x10s. As I said it the results were pretty good on the HP using
the settings for HP's High Gloss Photo Paper and letting the printer
handle the sRGB output. The Canon also produces pretty good output
working that way but not as good as the HP was, and it should be able to
do better.
Now I like the Galerie Gloss it makes nice prints, which is good because
I bought a sizable amount of it a couple of years ago at a very good price.
So I tootled over to Ilford's website to download the profiles for the
Canon, and...
I can't find the product. It's disapeared. It's not even listed under
it's product number as a discontinued item. So now I've got a couple
hundred sheets of this stuff left and I have no particularly easy way of
profiling it, (Oh and did I mention the Canon inks are a tad bit more
expensive than the HP inks were, so I'd l;ike to have as little wastage
as possible).
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